Thoughts & Updates
The Winner Of Meal-Kit Delivery Service Has Only Just Filed For A Trademark
Amazon files for a trademark for meal-kit delivery. Blue Apron loses about a tenth of its market cap in a day. This shows how much market-moving power Amazon has. For all we know, Amazon’s meal-kit delivery service could very well just be in its infancy, unless it’s...
Hitting Your Competitor Where It Hurts
On the heels of Amazon acquiring Whole Foods, making a much quicker entry to the groceries world than building out its own Amazon Go stores, The Wall Street Journal reported that Walmart has been signaling its technology suppliers not to use AWS, Amazon’s cloud...
Spotify, Apple Music, and now Tesla Music?
According to a Recode report, Tesla has been talking to the music industry about creating its own music service. Many tech commentators have rushed to praise the move as brilliant on Elon Musk’s part, as Tesla is looking to launch “a multi-tier Pandora-like service.”...
Fighting Airbnb In Court Is Not Enough
The New York Times has published a 2016 document by American Hotel and Lodging Association regarding how to compete against Airbnb in the coming year. You can find the excerpt here. It highlighted their dire need for regulatory support to make the industry more...
Elon Musk’s New Venture: Telepathy
Elon Musk has long been joking about his fear that Larry Page might accidentally create SkyNet. Now he's doing something about it. Wall Street Journal has reported that Elon Musk has planned for his next startup: Neuralink Corp. Initially, the plan is to implant tiny...
Apple And Google’s Wearable Sensors Could Propel Healthcare To New Age
Apple has been reported as having been working secretly on a device that measures blood sugar levels non-invasively. Alphabet’s Google has also been spending much effort in the same area. Through Verily, formerly known as Google Life Sciences, the company invested in...